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fact to almost every stimulus to which animals respond, except 

 sound. He developed extremely sensitive apparatus to measure 

 the responses made by plants to these stimuli. He maintained 

 there was no animal reaction in even the highest animal form 

 that had not been foreshadowed in the lives of plants. He also 

 taught that plants have a nervous system and something cor- 

 responding to a heart. In this country the accuracy of his work 

 is not questioned, but his interpretations, are, many of them, 

 considered the views of a mystic. 



One of our members would like to know if anyone can give 

 the scientific names of plants referred to as "Wild Isaac" and 

 "Narrow-leaved wild Isaac." These names were used in describ- 

 ing the plants growing in a wild garden in the Town of Litch- 

 field, Conn. 



Dates of Publication of Volume 37 



Number 1, January-February February 19 



2, March-April April 3 



3, May-June June 15 



4, July-August August 4 



5, September-October October 22 



6, November-December December 29 



In Science for December 17 Dr. Ales Hrdlicka describes 

 briefly the peculiar grow^th of plants found on the ancient village 

 sites in Alaska and the Alaskan Islands. In practically every 

 case the plants growing on the sites of ancient villages and on 

 kitchen middens are so distinct from the surrounding vegetation 

 that these sites can be recognized at a distance merely by the 

 plants growing on them. In general the vegetation is much 

 darker and richer than in the surrounding regions. For example, 

 one pre-Russian village site is covered every year with for-get- 

 me-nots, the only ones seen in the neighborhood. 



Dr. F. Lamson-Scribner, who retired as agrostologist of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture in 1922, recently received a 

 visit from D. E. Juan, a native of the Philippine Islands, to 

 express the sentiment of the farmers of the Philippine Islands. 

 As their first director of agriculture, Dr. Lamson-Scribner, now 



